Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Oct 07, 2025
3 days / week in-office
Compensation
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About the role
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all.
Responsibilities
- Lead by example and mentor team members to produce extensible, maintainable, and high-quality code.
- Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance and maintainability.
- Identify and implement best practices and coding patterns, providing deep expertise in coding and validation strategies.
- Utilize debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively and reactively resolve issues.
- Oversee the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
- Facilitate coordination and communication across teams to resolve conflicts and ensure security and performance.
- Lead architectural discussions, create proposals, and oversee the testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
- Mentor team members in testing and quality assurance, defining success criteria for test outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or C#, Java, or Python.
- 4+ years of development products and scalable distributed services, and designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience in cloud backend development and operation, including performance, reliability, resilience, and scale-out.
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
Benefits
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
About the Company
Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.
Job Details
Salary Range
$119,800 - $234,700/yearly
Location
Redmond, Washington, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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